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Talk With Me Baby: Leveraging Well-Child Care to Enhance the Early Home Language Environment

NCT07132411 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2026-03-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Language-rich interactions with a parent or caregiver can serve as a protective factor for young children, by supporting their language development and other positive long-term outcomes, but existing interventions have not had the necessary reach to families who need this information the most. This study utilizes the primary care setting as a low cost, scalable way to deliver language promotion intervention. Specifically, we will test the effectiveness and explore implementation of language promotion intervention (Talk With Me Baby) that embeds within anticipatory guidance during pediatric well-child care to boost early language development and optimize health, academic, and economic outcomes.

Conditions

  • Child Language
  • Language Delay
  • Developmental Milestones

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Patients in Talk With Me Baby Clinics

Parent-child participants in TWMB clinics will attend their regular WCC visits (scheduled per routine clinic processes) following the AAP Periodicity Schedule.

BEHAVIORAL

Patients in Care-As-Usual Clinics

Parent-child participants in Care-As-Usual clinics will attend their regular WCC visits (scheduled per routine clinic processes) following the AAP Periodicity Schedule. Measures will be completed at five time points.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Kansas Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Brenda J Salley, PhD · University of Kansas Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Day
Max Age
2 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-02-05
Primary Completion
2029-03-31
Completion
2029-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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